MoI holds e-services induction seminar

The Ministry of Interior in collaboration with Qatar Chamber of Commerceand Industry organised yesterday an induction seminar on its e-servicesoffered to companies at Qatar Chamber of Commerce.The vice-chairman of Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry MohamedAhmad bin Towar al-Kuwari, Brigadier Abdul Rahman Ali al-Maliki, AsstDirector of the General Directorate of Information Systems and BrigadierAbdul Rahman Majid al-Sulaiti, Director of Planning and QualityDepartment were among the dignitaries who attended the programme.Brigadier Abdul Rahman al-Maliki said that the the Ministry of Interiorprovides electronic services to companies, including integrated servicesthat do not need to review the service centres, which are availablearound the clock and seven days a week.These services are accessible from anywhere and in six languages - Arabic, English, French, Urdu, Malayalam and Spanish.More than 200 electronic services are available now to more than 400,000users and more than 40,000 companies whereas more than 5mn transactionswere completed in 2017.The Ministry of the Interior offers corporate electronic services suchas direct debit, PRO, auto renewal, mail delivery, entry permit, travelnotification and traffic.He pointed out that the services granted to PROs aim to enable theauthorised persons to grant specific authority to PROs of theircompanies, reduce the phenomenon of using smart cards of the authorisedperson by PROs, and enable PROs to use their own smart cards for thecompletion of authorised transactions.This feature is specific to the services of the Ministry of Interior only.The authority can be granted to a citizen or resident if he is anemployee of the company and may be granted multiple authorities to thesame person or the same authority to several persons.An employee of any company under the authorised signatory can also begiven permission to sign for others, if he is an employee of one ofthem.The permissions can be cancelled at any time by the authorised person orin the event of a change in the status of the PRO such as transfer ofsponsorship, cancellation of residence or death.This service provides the highest levels of security for the company and the owners, he added.He pointed out that the services provided by the ministry to companies include automatic renewal of residence permits.It is a smart service provided through MOI website and Matrash 2.The HR staffs of companies can follow up the renewal of residencepermits of individuals working with that company automatically andwithout submitting any manual or automated requests.The service also provides the option of non-renewal of the residences automatically, if they are not intent.The ID cards are delivered through the Qatar Postal Services Company(Q-Post). He added that this service has certain conditions.The company shall subscribe to Metrash 2 or have a smart card to use the web portal.Subscription is permitted only to authorised employees of the company.The company’s direct debit account is provided at QNB.The authority to use this account is provided to the authorisedsignatory for the service, as well as regulating the maximum amountallowed for renewals for residence permits and e-mail reports of for allrenewals.Residence permit cards are delivered through the Q-post.The company shall use the Exclusion Service to exclude individuals who are not willing to renew their residence permits.He added that this service has many advantages.It provides detailed alert of the status of the residences of theemployees twice a month (on 1st and 15th of each month) and feesrequired for the procedure, and provide exclusive reports about theresidence permits renewed and refused as well as the reason forrejection will twice each month (on the 8th and 22nd of each month).